Bioactive trace metals and their isotopes as paleoproductivity proxies: An assessment using GEOTRACES‐era data

TJ Horner, SH Little, TM Conway… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton productivity and export sequester climatically significant quantities of
atmospheric carbon dioxide as particulate organic carbon through a suite of processes …

Chromium isotope geochemistry

L Qin, X Wang - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Chromium consists of four stable isotopes (50 Cr, 52 Cr, 53 Cr and 54 Cr) with natural
abundances of 4.35%, 83.79%, 9.50% and 2.36%, respectively (Rossman and Taylor 1998) …

[HTML][HTML] Highly fractionated chromium isotopes in Mesoproterozoic-aged shales and atmospheric oxygen

DE Canfield, S Zhang, AB Frank, X Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The history of atmospheric oxygen through the Mesoproterozoic Era is uncertain, but may
have played a role in the timing of major evolutionary developments among eukaryotes …

Enrichment and speciation of chromium during basalt weathering: Insights from variably weathered profiles in the Leizhou Peninsula, South China

SS Sun, M Ao, KR Geng, JQ Chen, JJ Li… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Basalt-derived soils are widespread worldwide. Such soils contain high levels of heavy
metals like chromium (Cr), which is a serious environmental concern. However, little is …

Modern rather than Mesoarchaean oxidative weathering responsible for the heavy stable Cr isotopic signatures of the 2.95 Ga old Ijzermijn iron formation (South …

G Albut, MG Babechuk, IC Kleinhanns… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Previously reported stable Cr isotopic fractionation in Archaean paleosols and iron
formations (IFs) have been interpreted as a signature of oxidative weathering of Cr (III) to Cr …

[HTML][HTML] Redox-independent chromium isotope fractionation induced by ligand-promoted dissolution

EM Saad, X Wang, NJ Planavsky, CT Reinhard… - nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The chromium (Cr) isotope system has emerged as a potential proxy for tracing the Earth's
atmospheric evolution based on a redox-dependent framework for Cr mobilization and …

[HTML][HTML] Marine microbial Mn (II) oxidation mediates Cr (III) oxidation and isotope fractionation

M Miletto, X Wang, NJ Planavsky, GW Luther… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
The stable chromium (Cr) isotope system has been used extensively over the past decade
as a paleoredox proxy. The prevailing view has been that Cr oxidation is essentially limited …

Biogeochemical cycle of chromium isotopes at the modern Earth's surface and its applications as a paleo-environment proxy

W Wei, R Klaebe, HF Ling, F Huang, R Frei - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Chromium (Cr) is a redox-sensitive metal element with two natural oxidation states,
commonly as the soluble Cr (VI) oxyanion (CrO 4 2− or HCrO 4−) and the insoluble Cr (III) …

Using stable isotope fractionation factors to identify Cr (VI) reduction pathways: Metal-mineral-microbe interactions

Q Zhang, K Amor, SJG Galer, I Thompson, D Porcelli - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Microbes interact with metals and minerals in the environment altering their physical and
chemical states, whilst in turn metals and minerals impact on microbial growth, activity and …

[HTML][HTML] Chromium biogeochemistry and stable isotope distribution in the Southern Ocean

J Rickli, DJ Janssen, C Hassler, MJ Ellwood… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the potential of stable chromium (Cr) isotope compositions as a proxy for past
changes in oceanic redox conditions, a detailed understanding of the processes that govern …